Table of Contents

• Week 1
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6
• Week 7
• Week 8
• Week 9
• Week 10

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Syllabus

Week 1

March 31

LectureCourse Introduction & Overview

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 2

April 2

LectureThe Four Invariants (Ch 2)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 2

PA1 Released PA1: Investigate Wireless Network Protocol — due Tuesday, April 15 at 11:59 PM.

Discussion Section Environment setup & tool orientation

Week 2

April 7

LectureDesign Principles & The Dependency Graph (Ch 2)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 2

April 9

LecturePredictions, QUIC & the Midterm (Ch 2)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 2

PA1 Due PA1 due Tuesday, April 15 at 11:59 PM.

PA2 Released PA2: Extract QoS Metrics for Video Streaming Applications — due Tuesday, April 29 at 11:59 PM.

Discussion Section Wireshark & packet capture basics

Week 3

April 14

LectureMedium Access & Wireless Architecture (Ch 3+4)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 3
• First Principles of Networking, Ch 4

April 16

LectureMedium Access & Wireless Architecture (Ch 3+4)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 3
• First Principles of Networking, Ch 4

Discussion Section Flow analysis & packet parsing

Week 4

April 21

LectureMedium Access & Wireless Architecture (Ch 3+4)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 3
• First Principles of Networking, Ch 4

April 23

LectureMedium Access & Wireless Architecture (Ch 3+4)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 3
• First Principles of Networking, Ch 4

PA2 Due PA2 due Tuesday, April 29 at 11:59 PM.

PA3 Released PA3: Extract QoS Metrics for Video Conferencing Application — due Tuesday, May 12 at 11:59 PM.

Discussion Section QoS metric extraction for video streaming

Week 5

April 28

LectureMedium Access & Wireless Architecture (Ch 3+4)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 3
• First Principles of Networking, Ch 4

April 30

LectureReview / Buffer

Discussion Section Midterm review

Week 6

May 5

LectureMidterm Exam The midterm is in-class and closed-device. It covers Chapters 2–4 (First Principles, Medium Access, Wireless Architecture).

May 7

LectureQueue Management (Ch 6)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 6

PA3 Due PA3 due Tuesday, May 12 at 11:59 PM.

Discussion Section NetReplica setup & intro

Week 7

May 12

LectureQueue Management (Ch 6)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 6

PA4 Released PA4: Network Experimentation with NetReplica/NetGent — due Tuesday, June 3 at 11:59 PM.

May 14

LectureMultimedia Applications (Ch 8)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 8

Discussion Section NetReplica deep dive: navigating papers, experiment design

Week 8

May 19

LectureMultimedia Applications (Ch 8)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 9

May 21

LectureMeasurement, Management & Research Frontier (Ch 9)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 9

Discussion Section NetGent intro + video conferencing analysis

Week 9

May 26

LectureMeasurement, Management & Research Frontier (Ch 9)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 9

PA4 Due PA4 due Tuesday, June 3 at 11:59 PM.

May 28

LectureMeasurement, Management & Research Frontier (Ch 9)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 9

Discussion Section NetReplica/NetGent for network experimentation

Week 10

June 2

LectureMeasurement, Management & Research Frontier (Ch 9)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 9

June 4

LectureMeasurement, Management & Research Frontier (Ch 9)

Readings

• First Principles of Networking, Ch 9

Discussion Section No Discussion this week